Cisco has failed to stop CSIRO from registering its logo as a trademark, Microsoft may one day make Windows open source and Singtel will acquire 98% of security service provider Trustwave for a little over $1 billion.

Australian IT spending will increase 4.2% in local currencies this year, but a stronger US dollar will lead to declining revenues globally, according to Gartner. [ + ]

The information security industry is failing to keep pace with the threat posed by cybercriminals, new research suggests.

The Tasmanian government has released a discussion paper covering scoping and implementation for Tasmanian Cloud, a project to move whole-of-government data to a secure, on-island cloud.

This week: Linux Breach response brings bouquets, Google Analytics suffers breakdown, glitch leaves drivers without valid licences, Canadian government system on the nose and data centre meltdown leaves two million customers on hold.

The Australian broadband industry's proposed copyright notice scheme has been submitted for regulatory approval, but the code has been criticised for not including safeguards against copyright trolls.

Around 84% of the Australian organisations vulnerable to the Heartbleed exploit are still not fully protected a year after its discovery, according to Venafi.

MYOB has filed a prospectus for an IPO on the ASX, marking a return to public trading after nearly six years as a private company.

Support for Windows Server 2003 will cease 100 days from now, yet almost 60% of businesses are still reliant on it. Microsoft Australia's CTO, Greg Stone, talks us through what to do about upgrading.

A New Zealand research organisation required visibility and intelligence to see what was happening on its network, and know ahead of time if something suspicious was occurring that could affect the organisation and its members. [ + ]

'Dyre Wolf' attack netts more than US$1 million, Europe's regulator could soon bring antitrust charges against Google and Telstra Health to acquire business assets of telemedicine provider Anywhere Healthcare.

Perth's Edith Cowan University (ECU) has become the first Australian university to move its entire data centre infrastructure to the cloud, under a five-year contract with Atos. [ + ]

Research at MIT has led to a system that distributes data around multicore chips' memory banks, improving execution times by 18% on average while increasing energy efficiency. [ + ]

NBN Co has commercially launched FTTB technology and added 550,000 premises to its construction plan, while Telstra has submitted its revised NBN migration plan to the ACCC.

Digital disruptive intermediaries such as iTunes and Uber can shake up industries and challenge or overthrow incumbent businesses, but companies are often too slow to respond to the threat, a report states. [ + ]